SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 29. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Regional Executive Commission of the PSOE Canarias has agreed on Monday to start talks with all the political forces that have obtained representation in the regional Parliament, except with VOX, to try to form a majority of government in the Canary Islands.
This has been announced in statements to the media by the general secretary of the PSOE Canarias, Ángel Víctor Torres, who has indicated that, although some informal contacts have already been made, these rounds will begin as of Wednesday, as was done for four years.
Ángel Víctor Torres acknowledges the difficulty of reissuing a majority, since at this time an agreement between the Canary Islands Coalition and the Popular Party, along with other formations such as the Herreña Independent Group (AHI) and the Gomera Socialist Group (ASG), would add up to an absolute majority.
However, Torres considers that it should correspond to start these talks for the formation of a government to the one who has won the elections and, if it does not go ahead, to the rest of the actors. “That is what must be done out of respect for the majority sense expressed at the polls,” stressed the leader of the Canarian socialists, who does not give up even trying to govern in a minority.
Torres has stressed that the Socialist Party thus assumes the responsibility of being the leading political force in the Canary Islands. “We assume that responsibility again. We will visit all the political formations [a excepción de VOX] because that is what the party that wins the elections must logically do,” he stressed.
Thus, the socialist leader highlighted some of the data obtained at the polls by his party. Regarding the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres highlighted that the PSOE regional list has obtained 285,000 votes, which is 22,000 more votes than those obtained in 2019; while the list headed by Fernando Clavijo (CC) has achieved 160,000 votes (40,000 less than in 2019) and the one headed by Manuel Domínguez (PP), 177,000.
Regarding the insular constituencies, Ángel Víctor Torres indicated that the Socialist Party has obtained 238,000 votes, followed by the Canary Islands Coalition, with 191,000. And he pointed out that if the votes obtained in both constituencies were added, the PSOE would have 523,700 votes and the Canary Islands Coalition, 357,000, which means a difference in favor of the Socialist Party of 166,000 votes.
Torres emphasized that these data show that the PSOE has “clearly” won the elections in the Canary Islands, increasing the results obtained in 2019, when it managed to obtain 25 seats in the Autonomous Chamber, compared to others that have lost support. , alluding to the Canary Islands Coalition and the Popular Party, the second and third political forces.
The leader of the Canarian socialists went further and pointed out that if the votes of the insular and regional constituencies were added, the PSOE would rise in votes but lose two deputies, while the second force, the Canary Islands Coalition, would lose 45,000 votes and, nevertheless, he only loses one deputy.
“These are the intricacies of the electoral law,” said Torres, who considers that the Socialist Party has obtained a “very good result” in the Canary Islands despite “the influence that the state debate has had, even with the announcement of early elections by part of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez”.
MUNICIPAL AND ISLAND DATA.
Ángel Víctor Torres also highlighted that the PSOE has obtained 406 councilors in the Canary Islands in these elections, being the first force in number of municipal representatives and obtaining one hundred representatives more than the second political force.
Likewise, he highlighted the fact that the Socialist Party has achieved an absolute majority in 20 Canary Islands municipalities and a simple majority in 14, achieving victory in important places such as Las Palmas de Gran Canaria or Santa Cruz de Tenerife. For this reason, it makes sense that the PSOE presides over the Canarian Federation of Municipalities (Fecam).
Regarding the Cabildos, he explained that the PSOE is the leading force on the island of Tenerife and has the same number of councilors, although 69 fewer votes, in Lanzarote compared to the Canary Islands Coalition, and 10,000 fewer votes in Gran Canaria compared to NC. He also indicated that the difference in the number of votes is very low on the island of El Hierro, where there is practically a difference of less than 100 votes.
DEFENSE OF THE PACT OF THE FLOWERS.
Asked about the results obtained by his government partners up to now, such as Nueva Canarias, whose leader, Román Rodríguez, has been left out of Parliament, like Podemos, Ángel Víctor Torres does not attribute it to the management of the Pact of Flowers during these four years, but to other factors such as the entry into the Chamber of a party like VOX, with four deputies, or the fall of United We Can: “This is a circumstance that has nothing to do with the Canarian reality; it is a reality that has given in all the autonomous communities”.
And regarding the role that the president of ASG, Casimiro Curbelo, who has also been part of the Pact of Flowers, will now play, Torres acknowledged that it is now “essential” to achieve an absolute majority; therefore, he warned that, just as it happened four years ago, “there are days ahead and cloth to cut.”
If he does not achieve the goal of becoming president of the Canary Islands again, Ángel Víctor Torres makes it clear that he will remain in Parliament for the next four years: “Whenever I have presented myself to an administration, I have stayed until the end. Therefore, without any I would certainly stay in Parliament defending the votes that I received mostly from the Canaries”.
